10 Comic Secrets Hiding In Plain Sight

For anyone who wasn't involved in the weirdness that was internet culture in the 2000s, it's time to explain what Rickrolling is. As many of you likely know, it's a term that's used to refer to the hilarious if occasionally irritating trend where you lead people to clink on a link, only to surprise them with Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up".

Around 2008, clicking on a link for just about anything on the internet left you with about a 33% chance you'd accidentally Rickroll yourself. As it turns out, this could also be said for comics, as in the iconic comedy comic XKCD, a hidden nod to Astley's finest work was hidden.

Because, in the three hundredth and eighty ninth comic, the jokes revolves around some music notes shown in the background - notes which you don't have to be able to read in order to get the joke.

If you can read music well enough you can "hear" the song, though, you quickly realise you've been bamboozled, and that the music used for this joke is, of course, Never Gonna Give You Up. Even years from the birth of the Rickroll, it seems like you still can't totally avoid it.